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Box office. $14.1 million. Dragonslayer is a 1981 American dark fantasy film directed by Matthew Robbins from a screenplay he co-wrote with Hal Barwood. It stars Peter MacNicol, Ralph Richardson, John Hallam, and Caitlin Clarke. It was a co-production between Paramount Pictures and Walt Disney Productions, where Paramount handled North American ...
Following the premiere of the 1981 fantasy movie Dragonslayer, SPI acquired the license to produce a board game. The result was Dragonslayer, designed by Brad Hessel and Redmond A. Simonsen, with artwork by Simonsen. It was released in 1981.
Actress. Years active. 1978–2001. Caitlin Clarke (born Katherine Anne Clarke; [1] May 3, 1952 – September 9, 2004) [2] was an American actress best known for her roles as Valerian in the 1981 fantasy film Dragonslayer and Charlotte Cardoza in the 1998–1999 Broadway musical Titanic.
Dragonslayer is a novel by Wayland Drew published in 1981. Plot summary ... (1981) in Dragon Magazine, #52, August 1981; Review by Chris Henderson (1982) ...
Dragonslayer. Saint George slaying the dragon, as depicted by Paolo Uccello, c. 1470. A dragonslayer is a person or being that slays dragons. Dragonslayers and the creatures they hunt have been popular in traditional stories from around the world: they are a type of story classified as type 300 in the Aarne–Thompson classification system. [1]
Peter MacNicol (born April 10, 1954) is an American actor. He received a Theatre World Award for his 1981 Broadway debut in the play Crimes of the Heart.His film roles include Galen in Dragonslayer (1981), Stingo in Sophie's Choice (1982), Janosz Poha in Ghostbusters II (1989), Gary Granger in Addams Family Values (1993), Renfield in Dracula: Dead and Loving It (1995), and David Langley in ...
The dragon is called Vermithrax Pejorative. As the dragon cannot speak or write, we have to assume that it's not her name, and must be the species designation. Of course, scientific taxonomy did not exist at that time. But the faux Latin is clever, "vermithrax" suggesting vermin and anthrax.
After a minor part in the film Dragonslayer (1981), [15] McDiarmid was cast by George Lucas in Return of the Jedi (1983) as the Emperor, the film's villain. [16] CNN named McDiarmid fourth in their top 10 British villains, stating it was his "darkly seductive voice" that "stole the show", and it was a "masterclass in ruling through fear and ...